#poetry excerpt

True love takes its toll On souls Who are not used to feeling whole.

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Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey

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They’d like to see through me, but nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

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Oh invade me with your scalding mouth, search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes, but allow me to sail and sleep

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Messy love is better than none. I guess. I’m no authority on sane living.

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I wonder if I should let my hair go grey so my advice will be better.

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for me obedience to another is the decay of self

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………………………….. Beauty endures for as long as people see it, But goodness will always be beautiful. …………………………..

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I remember you, hummingbird. I think of you every day even as I am still here, soaked in color, waiting year

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With kisses your mouth taught me my lips came to know fire.

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50 loves, 20 years. and we are granted a very small summer, and then it’s winter again

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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

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And so beneath the weight lay I And suffered death, but could not die.

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